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Understanding gender-based violence in critical mineral mining
Publication, 06 March 2025
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Redress for land and resource rights violations: a legal empowerment agenda
… their rights or obtain redress. Demand for legal support outstrips resources and what is available is not always appropriate. Pursuing …
Publication, 01 March 2019
Landscape with a mine and blue sky.
Can the net-zero transition offer a new dawn for Africa’s industrialisation?
… boom cycles, African countries have been plundered for their rich resources. Since then, African leaders have hoped mineral extraction … requires significant infrastructural, technical and financial resources and capacities to make it happen. The two countries have …
Insight, 16 May 2024
This week in Myanmar, pictured, the Forest Farm Facility is funding a national exchange between forest and farm producer groups and many other producer groups (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Forest and Farm Facility: Getting resources to those who matter
… from Chamber's book it is no less difficult  to involve, and channel resources to, the vast private sector of local forest and farm producers … and well-funded single-issue agendas that so many outsiders support. Resources to defend their interests are scarce. Enter the Forest and … The Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) was designed to channel scarce resources to such groups. It's not a perfect vehicle – nothing ever is. …
Insight, 24 March 2014
UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell, Türkiye's Minister of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change and COP31 President-Designate Murat Kurum, and COP30 President André Corrêa do Lago during a preparatory press conference for COP31 held in Istanbul.
Where to find IIED and partners at COP31: event listing
Event, 09 November 2026
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Forest and Farm Facility Annual Report 2023
… constituencies. It acts as a strategic enabler, channelling financial resources to strengthen FFPOs' capacities, technologies, governance and …
Publication, 25 April 2024
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The resource bites back: entry-points for addressing corruption in wildlife crime
Publication, 18 November 2016
Land cleared for palm oil in Riau Province, Indonesia. Only half of Riau's palm oil plantations have official permits (Photo: Wakx, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Law in the natural resource squeeze: 'land grabbing', investment treaties and human rights
… researcher in law and sustainable development in IIED's Natural Resources research group, explores whether investment treaties protect …
Article, 13 October 2016
Rainforest logged to make way for palm oil plantations in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Deforestation for agribusiness is destroying habitats and the ecosystems upon which local communities depend (Photo: David Gilbert/RAN, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Law and political economy of the global resource squeeze: can action rise to the challenge?
… As principal researcher in IIED's Natural Resources research group, Lorenzo Cotula leads research, policy … research?  LC: Global changes have increased pressures on natural resources. From the mid-2000s, public policies and market forces … to changing commodity prices, but most analysts expect pressures on resources to increase in the longer term. This trend prompted me to look …
Article, 04 March 2019
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Legal Tools for Citizen Empowerment: Strengthening rights and voices in natural resource investment
… resource investments increase pressures on the world’s land and resources, the effective use of legal tools, by non-governmental …
Publication, 01 November 2014